Visual Studio for Mac version 7.2 Alpha Preview

Visual Studio

August 2nd, 2017

Today we’ve released a new alpha preview for Visual Studio for Mac in the alpha updater channel – our first preview for version 7.2. The major themes for this release are improving the performance and accessibility support.

Preview Capabilities

The Azure Functions support and IoT support were bundled as part of the IDE for our Build 2017 preview release. As we get ready for our final release, we have unbundled these capabilities from the core IDE and they are now available to be installed from the Extension Manager. To install them, simply click on Extensions in the top menu in the IDEto find the extensions under the IDE extensions node on the Gallery tab.

Miguel is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, focused on the mobile platform and creating delightful developer tools. With Nat Friedman, he co-founded both Xamarin in 2011 and Ximian in 1999. Before that, Miguel co-founded the GNOME project in 1997 and has directed the Mono project since its creation in 2001, including multiple Mono releases at Novell. Miguel has received the Free Software Foundation 1999 Free Software Award, the MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year Award in 1999, and was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 innovators for the new century in September 2000.